Gas-producer



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' W. J. TAYLOR.

GAS PRODUCER.

No. 565,048. Patented Aug. 4, 1896.

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W. J. TAYLOR.

GAS 211011110311.

No.'565,048. Patented Aug. 4, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT ErrcE.

YVILLIAM J. TAYLOR, OF BOUND BROOK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE TAYLOR GAS PRODUCER COMPANY, OF CAMDEN, NE JERSEY.

GAS-PRODUCER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 565,048, dated August 4, 1896.

Application filed October 16,1895. Serial No. 565,877. (No model-l To 64% whom it Hwy concern: hopper o and diameter of the revolving table (1 Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. TAYLOR, a have been such relatively to each other, citizen of the United States, residing at Bound combined with the proper distance of the ta- Brook, in the county of Somerset and State of bio from the hopper, as to cause the natural 5 5 5 New Jersey, have invented certain new and slope assumed by the ash when the table was useful Improvements in Gas-Producers, of at rest to come to the periphery thereof to which the following is a specification. permit by the revolving of the table the ash My invention relates toa gas-producer, and to flatten or spread out through its falling or has for its object the prevention of waste or running overthe periphery into the ash-cham- 10 fuel in the ash and the attainment of greater her a beneath.

uniformity in the operation of the producer. In practical operation, in the use of anthra- My invention, stated in general terms, concite fuel, such as pea or buckwheat coal, it sists of a gas-producer constructed and arhas been found that clinker will lodge at times ranged for operationin substantially the manin the hopper a, and in revolving the table 15 nor hereinafter described and claimed. the ash will fall away therefrom, leaving The nature and scope of my invention will channels or openings through which the fuel be more fully understood from the following would fall or run down onto the table (Z. The description, taken in connection With the acnatural slope assumed by the hot fuel being companying drawings, forming part hereof, flatter than that of the ash, it does not stop at 2c and in whichthe table, but continues to run over the edge Figure lisavertical centralsection through of the table into the ash-chamber c, in which a producer embodying features of my inven it mingles with the ash and is wasted. To tion, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the entirely obviate such loss of fuel is the main line a; cc of Fig. 1. object of my present invention, and to con- 2 5 Referring to the drawings, A is the prostruct the revolving table (5 of such diameter duoer, provided with a hopper a, preferably relatively to the diameter of the lower poi perforated and forming the lower portion of tion of the hopper a as that the distance the ash and fuel holding chamber and extendapart of one with respect to the other will efing into a normally-closed ash and clinker fectuallypreventthe fuel, ash,orclinker from 3o discharging chamber 0. falling over the periphery of the table andinto (Z is a revoluble ash and fuel supporting the ash-chamber 0 until removed therefrom table located beneath the lower portion of the by means of the scrapers ,7, which are arranged hopper a and at a sufficient distance from the so as to be forced into the ash a greater or same to permit of the removal of ash and less distance in a radial direction about the "5 clinker therefrom. upper surface of the table cl, as required, and cl and (1 represent a rack and a pinion opwhich, when the table is revolved, scrape olf erated by a crank d for permitting of the at the will of the attendant the extraneous rotation of the table d. matter or ash into the chamber 0 beneath.

f is one of a series of curved bifurcated It will be obvious that the producer may 4o scrapers, each supported in a slot or opening be provided with a number of such scrapers in the wall of the producer and movable in a and one or more employed at a time, as reradial direction above the table d to permit quirements demand. The scrapers are prefby the rotation of said table in either direcer bly bifurcated and curved at their inner tion removal of ash or other extraneous matends, as shown in Fig. 2, in order to scrape 9 5 45 ter therefrom. oif the ash or similar matter as the table is c is a centrally-arranged vertical pipe or revolved in either direction. twyer through which a blast of air or steam It is to be understood that the revolving and air are injected into the fuel or ash and table and the bottom of the ash-hopper are fuel in the upper portion of the hopper a. so proportioned relatively to one another as I00 50 Hitherto in gas-producers of the Taylor to make the angle of repose extend beyond type the diameter of the lower portion of the that of the fine hot anthracite fuel, so that such fuel cannot be discharged. from the table even when revolved unless the scrapers are pushed in by the attendant to permit of their action upon the bed of ash. The object of this is twofold. First, it prevents the loss of fuel in running, and, second, to allow of the table being revolved for loosenin g the ash and fuel, when both become tight from any cause, without discharging any of the ash from the table, which is a great advantage, as practice has demonstrated, in the making of gas from anthracite fuel for various purposes.

Having thus described the nature and 0bject-s of my invention, what I claim as new,

and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A gas-producer having in the lower part an ash-supporting hopper, a revoluble table located beneath said hopper, bifurcated scrapers interposed between said hopper and table, the diameter of said table relatively to that of said hopper is such, that the distance apart of one from the other prevents extraneous matter resting upon the same from falling over the periphery thereof until removed by said scrapers adapted to be forced into said matter in a radial direction, all arranged as shown and described and for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WVILLIAM J. TAYLOR.

lVitnesses:

J. WALTER DoUGLAss, THOMAS M. SMITH. 

